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FILE #05-30/2 <br />3 January 2005 <br />Page 1 of 5 <br />Date Application Received: 12-17-04 <br />Date Application Considered as Complete: 01-03-05 <br />60-Day Review Period Expires: 03-03-05 <br />To:Chair Rahn and Plr':riiiig Commission Members <br />Ron Moorsc, City Administrator <br />From: <br />Date: <br />Melanie Curtis, City Planner <br />January 3,2005 <br />Subject:05-3072, Orono Public School District //278, 685 Old Crystal Bay Road <br />Variance & Conditional Use Permit Amendment <br />Public Hearing <br />/oiling District: RR-1B, One Family Rural Residential District <br />Application Summary: <br />The applicant is requesting a variance and conditional use pemiit in order to replace the <br />existing campus monument sign with a new monument sign. The applicant is projiosing <br />a 9’ 2” tall x 11 ’ wide monument with 56 s.f. of sign face, including a 30 s.f. static <br />electronic readerboard. 'I'he proposed sign is to be located at the nortliwcst c»'rner of the <br />interse ction Old Crystal Bay Road and Highway 1 2 on school dis trict property. <br />Staff Recommendation: Planning Department StaB rccotiimcmls approval of the sign <br />size va*‘iance and conditional use permit for a new campus monument sign. <br />Hardship: Current Orono sign codes do not address institutional uses within residential <br />districts making it difficult to meet the needs of schools and other institutional uses within <br />R-Districts. <br />Pertinent Zoning Ordinanee Sections <br />y Sec. 78-418. Conditional u.scs. <br />Within any RR-IB one-family rural ••csidcntial district, no structure or land shall <br />be iKscd for the following u.scs without a conditional use permit: <br />(1) Public .schools and parochial or private schools which teach a curriculum similar <br />to a public .school, provided no building shall be located within 50 feet of any lot <br />line of an abutting lot in an R district and a fence is erected 15 feet or more from <br />all street lot lines where the abutting u.se is for open play, and nursery schools <br />providing 50 square feet of playground space |)er pupil. <br />> See. 78-419. Accessory uses. <br />Within any RR-IB one-family rural lesidentin) district, the following uses shall be <br />permitted accessory uses: <br />(4) SigiKS, as regulated in this chapter.